Comparison of orthotopic liver transplantation for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma and those without liver tumor / 中国现代普通外科进展

ABSTRACT

Objective:To investigate the risk and prognosis of orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT)for patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma(HCC)and those without liver tumor.Methods:The risk and prognosis of 21 cases of orthotopic liver transplantation for patients with HCC were retrospectively reviewed and the comparison was made between such patients and 19 others with non tumor caused end stage failures whose OLT procedures have been done at the same period.Results:Compared with the non tumor OLT recipients,the HCC patients have a better preoperative coagulation function.In accordance with this,the blood lose,the required transfusion and the total infusion during the operation were also less than those of non tumor OLT patients.The duration of hypotension induced by bleeding in HCC patients were also shorter than that in non tumor patients.There were more patients in HCC group with uneventful postoperative course than that in non tumor group.The perioperative mortality was also lower in HCC group.Although the recurrence of malignance affected the long term survival of HCC patients,the whole survival rate was similar to that of non tumor OLT patients.Conclusion:OLT remains an effective alternative for the advanced HCC patients for whom there was no other better choice.It is possible that some patients can get a long term survival and are free of the recurrence of the HCC after OLT treatment.